Should I wake her??

[Rachie1986]

My 17wk dd has slept brilliantly for the last 10days or so, building up from 6hrs straight to 10! Obviously I am thrilled!

My question is.. She isn't going down until anytime between 9.30-10.30, so a very late bedtime. She then sleeps so she's still asleep 8-9am (she's still asleep now 9.03am!). We've been waking her around 9am to try and start getting her to sleep a bit earlier in the evening and ensure she doesn't start going down later and later. So far it's not worked! So would you do this and wake her? Or just leave her to sleep?

DON'T wake the baby!!!!
Stealth boast much? !

Seriously, I don't think waking her any earlier will help just now but maybe think about her naps later in the day as they are likely to effect her bed time. At her age it is very likely she will change seventy million times with her sleep routine before settling in to her 'norm'

Thanks for the advice. Seriously not trying to boast... I know how great it is and I'm so scared of it changing anyway!

She's not a great napper, particularly late afternoon. No real pattern I can get her to do but generally won't sleep after her afternoon nap (mid afternoon ish) and if I try and get her down to sleep 6/7ish it just turns into another nap (of 45mins). If she doesn't "nap" then she gets screamy (but won't sleep) from about 8/8.30 so she is tired!

Thanks again :-)

My DS is the same (thank The Lord!). Regularly sleeps for 12 hrs. I often have to wake him up otherwise he wouldn't get all his feeds in before a decent bedtime for the next day iyswim and I have other dc to get to school. Waking up won't hurt them x

Thanks YouAre.. How old is your ds?

Yes some days I have to wake her anyway (church, Drs appt tomorrow etc) so leaving to sleep isn't an option then anyway

Don't worry about it for the moment just enjoy the later mornings. It will sort itself out as she gets older.

He's 7 months but been like this since he was about 12 weeks

NEVER wake a sleeping baby . My DS used to do 22:00-10:00. Now he is more active and wears himself out through the day he does 19:30-7:00. He also has x2 2 hour naps per day

I wonder if there is such a thing as too much sleep?

DS is 18 weeks and something similar- he goes to bed at around 8-9 then goes till 6-7. If he slept later I'd just let him!! Naps are also very erratic with us too but I honestly think that they're too little to have established a proper routine yet. I just let him sleep as and when he likes- whenever I've tried to engineer nap times etc it's ended in tears so have given up.
I checked with the hv when he started sleeping through at 12 weeks asking what I should do and she said "thank your lucky stars"!!! So I do!!!

Yes indeed thank your lucky stars! It is a godsend..
My ds was similar doing 12 hours straight from 12 weeks with nice big naps in the day too.
Dd 7 months...no such luck!